The Battle Progress (Updated on 18th October)

Sri Lankan armed forces police, police Special Task Force (STF) and Civil Defenc Force (CDF) are engaged in counter terrorist operations against the world's most barbaric terrorist organization named Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) or commonly known as Tamil Tigers. Since 1983, the terrorist campaign unleashed against Sri Lankan citizens has cost almost 70,000 lives. The mission of the Sri Lankan security forces is to free the Island nation from clutches of terrorism and to make it a country where all Sri Lankans can live in peace and harmony. During last 3 decades LTTE has shown its incapacity to engage in any meaningful dialogue more than once by resorting to violence during several ceasefires had in the past.

Current counter terror operations commenced in July 2006 as an active defence against continued attacks at civilians by LTTE. This was when the ceasefire agreement singed in 2002 was still in force. The government launched limited military operations to liberate Mavil Aru sluice gates as the terrorists had closed down the gates denying water for 30,000 civilians in the Eastern Province. As LTTE resumed hostilities even after the Mavil Aru operations, the government continued its counter terror move and liberated the whole Eastern Province by February 2007. As LTTE did not show any intention to renounce terrorism, the government abrogated the 2002 ceasefires in January 2008, and now is in the process of liberating the Northern Province from terror clutches.